Vishwas Mudagal

Vishwas Mudagal (born 1981) is a serial entrepreneur, an Indian author and is recognized as one of the top motivational and influential speakers in India.

Mudagal is a leading serial entrepreneur and a CEO with a history of building innovative technology brands and companies. He is currently the CEO and co-founder of GoodWorkLabs—one of the fastest growing technology firms in the industry, which helps global companies, start ups and entrepreneurs build high-end software products and succeed in the technology market. He has led his company to become a pioneer in ‘innovation outsourcing’ and created a unique process and a team of ‘technology and design rockstars’ that crafts innovative and path-breaking mobile apps, software products and games for global companies. He believes that he can change the world with technology and design.

An alumnus of RV College of Engineering, Bangalore, he started his first company called Infovision Computer Academy at the age of eighteen to educate rural students in Gadag, Karnataka, which trained several hundred students over a period of three years. In 2007, he co-founded an innovative Internet startup called JobeeHive.com, which received great recognition and went on to mass over 1.5 lac users.

In 2009 at the age of 27, Vishwas became the CEO of a Canadian MNC called Castle Rock. He set up their software center & business operations in Bangalore and built a 150+ member team. He received the ‘Star Entrepreneur Award‘ from Indira India Innovation Summit 2011 in recognition of his contribution to entrepreneurship and innovation.

Vishwas comes with over 15 years of diverse experience across entrepreneurial and corporate spheres – in Internet, Mobile, Telecom, Education and Legal domains. He helps global companies build strategies and enter new markets, build innovative products, and set up and scale software centers / R&D centers / offshore development centers globally.

Mudagal is also an indian author. His debut novel Losing My Religion, which was launched in 2014 and went on to become a sensation across India and the world with a huge and devoted following.Losing My Religion was voted as the No.1 book in 2014 (Reader’s choice) by readers in India (according to the research conducted by research firm Simplify360 which took ratings/reviews from readers directly from Amazon, Flipkart and Goodreads.). Deccan Chronicle named him in the Top 11 personalities of 2014 in Bangalore, the silicon valley of India, recognising his growing popularity in India, especially among the youth. He was invited at various literary festivals across India including the most famous Bangalore Literature Festival 2014. With the success and popularity of his debut novel, Vishwas has etched his place among the top authors in India.

Mudagal was born in Dharwad, Karnataka. He received a Bachelor of Engineering from RV College of Engineering, Bangalore.

The idea for Mudagal’s debut novel Losing My Religion came from his real life experience, when he shut down his Internet based firm. In the novel, the protagonist Rishi Rai faces a similar situation of bankruptcy but his life takes a turn when he sets on a journey with Alex, an American hippie.